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A category describes what a product is for. Both licence models sit in the same category, which is what makes a comparison possible.

Developer Tools

Utilities that sit in the daily loop of writing, testing, and shipping software.

292 products231 open+7.2%

Backend Platforms

Batteries included backends covering database, authentication, storage, and APIs.

83 products61 open+4.2%

Security & Identity

Credential storage, identity, compliance, and the plumbing that keeps access controlled.

81 products53 open+5.8%

AI Agent Platforms

Frameworks and runtimes for building, orchestrating, and supervising autonomous agents.

73 products58 open+12.4%

Monitoring & Observability

Metrics, logs, traces, and error reporting for systems in production.

60 products48 open+6.1%

Notes & Knowledge

Capturing, linking, and retrieving personal or team knowledge.

58 products42 open+4.9%

Workflow Automation

Tools that connect applications and run multi step processes without manual work.

57 products39 open+6.4%

Content Management

Systems for authoring, structuring, and delivering content to any front end.

55 products34 open+2.8%

Project Management

Tasks, issues, roadmaps, and the coordination work around them.

55 products32 open+4.4%

Web Analytics

Traffic, event, and product analytics, hosted for you or hosted by you.

51 products36 open+5.1%

Finance & Accounting

Software for budgeting, bookkeeping, invoicing, and financial administration.

37 products27 open0%

Photo & Video

Libraries, editors, and recorders for personal and produced media.

37 products21 open+3.4%

Team Chat & Meetings

Real time conversation, calls, and the shared rooms teams work in.

35 products24 open+2.6%

CRM & Support

Contact, deal, and conversation tracking with activity history and reporting.

32 products23 open+5.3%

File Sync & Storage

Syncing and sharing files across devices and teams.

32 products24 open+2.2%

LLM Runtimes & Chat

Running and talking to language models, on your own hardware or someone else's.

32 products25 open+14.2%

Email & Messaging Infrastructure

Sending, receiving, and orchestrating transactional and notification messages.

29 products16 open+4.6%

AI Coding Agents

Assistants that read a codebase and carry out engineering work from natural language instructions.

26 products21 open+11%

Data Infrastructure

Enterprise storage arrays, data platforms, and storage infrastructure.

26 products24 open0%

Office Productivity

Document, spreadsheet, and presentation suites for creating and collaborating on office files.

21 products17 open0%

Design & Whiteboarding

Shared canvases for interface design, diagrams, and visual thinking.

19 products14 open+3.1%

Forms & Surveys

Collecting structured responses with logic, validation, and reporting.

10 products8 open+1.9%

Web Browsers

General-purpose web browsers for desktop and mobile devices.

9 products6 open0%

Social Networks

Public social networking and microblogging: timelines, follows, and portable or federated identity.

7 products6 open0%

Home Server

Self-hosted personal cloud OS and home-server management platforms.

6 products3 open0%

Maps & Navigation

Offline and online maps, navigation, and location applications.

6 products5 open0%

Music Streaming

Catalogue music services. Licensing makes this one of the few categories with no open source answer.

6 products2 open+0.8%

Education & Learning

Course platforms, LMS, and online learning software.

4 products2 open0%

Home Automation

Control of smart devices, routines, and sensors, in the cloud or on your own network.

3 products2 open+3.7%

Event & Ticketing

Event management, ticketing, and box-office software.

2 products0 open0%